Carl Long

at Bristol, starting 21st but finishing 31st after the engine in his No. 91 Mansion Motorsports Ford F-150 expired.

He had another 28th at Rockingham the following year, as well as running the No. 07 for Moy Racing at Loudon, where his engine expired early in the race.

He also ran another race for Ware at New Hampshire, but finished last.

He made one more start that year, at Rockingham Speedway, finishing 32nd.

Long then drove at Pocono Raceway for the McGlynn Racing operation, finishing 41st.

After a final race for Glenn he ran two races with Hover Motorsports.

Long would eventually make his Cup debut at Dover, qualifying 42nd but finishing 41st after a crash on lap 12.

Driving the No. 49 for Jay Robinson Racing, Carl started 41st but came across handling problems during the race, relegating him to 42nd.

He started the season with Mansion Motorsports again, but when that team ran out of money, Long departed the team, originally to Glenn Racing, then to Ware Racing Enterprises, and then finally the No. 59 Foster Price team, with whom he finished 39th at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

James Carlyle "Carl" Long (born September 20, 1967) is an American professional stock car racing driver, mechanic, and team owner.

He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 66 Toyota Supra for MBM Motorsports.

In the past, he served as a mechanic for Mansion Motorsports, Spears Motorsports, and Travis Carter Motorsports.

He was a crew chief at Front Row Motorsports for Eric McClure and Competition director at Rick Ware Racing.

Long began racing in 1983 at Orange County and South Boston Speedway.

He won the track championship at South Boston in 1987 and the Street Stock championship at Orange County in 1990.

Unfortunately, sponsors wanted 1990 Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope to drive the car, which forced McGlynn to release Long.

Long closed out the year running at Homestead-Miami Speedway in a personally owned chassis originally purchased from Petty Enterprises.

In 1992, he raced in NASCAR-sanctioned competition for the first time, earning Rookie of the Year honors at Orange County in the Winston Racing Series, and was awarded the Best Sportsmanship award the following season.

He made his first race as a team owner that season, when Matt Carter drove his No. 96 truck to a 17th-place finish at Martinsville Speedway.

After competing at various Winston Racing tracks in the 90's, he moved up to the Slim Jim All Pro Series in 1997, grabbing a win at Bristol Motor Speedway in the No. 15 Austin Foods Chevy.

In 1998, he began running ARCA and Craftsman Truck races for Mansion Motorsports.

Long made his NASCAR debut in 1998 in the Craftsman Truck Series.

He began running the Cup races in 1999 with the No. 85 Mansion Motorsports team, but DNQ'd for every attempt throughout that year.

He ran Bristol again the following year, in the Truck Series posting a career-best ninth place qualifying effort, as well as at Louisville Speedway, where he wrecked very early in the race.

After more struggles in 2000, he finally qualified to make his Cup Series debut in one of its most prestigious races, the Coca-Cola 600.

However, Darrell Waltrip, one of the top drivers in series history, who was retiring at the end of the 2000 season, failed to qualify.

Long gave up his ride to Waltrip for the race.

He made another truck race in 2000 at Texas, where he started 33rd but finished 17th in a truck fielded by Team 23 Racing.

Although he drove only the No. 00 from McGlynn, Long ran nine races that year, and had a career-best qualifying effort of 20th at Atlanta.

He ran three races in 2001, his best finish being a 29th at the UAW-GM Quality 500.

He also made his Busch Series debut in 2001 in the Aaron's 312 at Atlanta.

In 2002, Long ran for Rookie of the Year, but failed to earn the award mainly due to an incomplete season.

Long attempted a group of the races, but failed to qualify for all except two.

He made two Busch races in 2003 for Robert Creech, his best finish a 28th at Rockingham.

After failing to make a Cup race in 2003, Long returned to the Glenn Racing Dodge in 2004.

In their first race together, Long's car flipped several times in a violent accident at the Subway 400, the final Cup race ever held at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina.

Long was uninjured and returned to the series in the following Cup event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, driving for fellow independent Hermie Sadler.

Long announced he would merge his No. 46 team with the McGlynn Racing team to run in 2005.

Most recently, he won the championship race at Orange County Speedway on November 12, 2006.

In addition, he had a sixteenth-place start at Dover for Mansion in the Truck Series (during which Long ran in the Top 10 before an engine failure), and a 30th-place finish at Richmond for Rick Ware in the Revival Soy truck.